Online Resources for Holocaust and WWII Research

Biographies:

Anne Frank Online
http://www.annefrank.com/
(Read excerpts from Anne's diary or see photos of her early childhood and life during the war)

The History Place -- The Rise of Adolf Hitler
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
(Biography of Hitler (timetable).  Hitler's boyhood and traits that hint at his malicious personality later in life.  Also, steps that led to his rise to power)

Bio on Hitler
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_hitler.html

Schindler Bio
http://remember.org/imagine/schindler.html

Multiple bios
http://www.auschwitz.dk/

Discrimination:

Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/
(combating racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism)

Hate Watch
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/hatewatch/?source=redirect&url=hatewatch
(Monitors threat of bigotry and hate group activities.  Definition of "hate group" on "What is Hate Watch" page)

Survivors:

Survivors -- Personal Stories
http://www.kimel.net/
(Personal reflections of a Holocaust survivor)

    Links to Interviews with Holocaust survivors

Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://www.remember.org/

I Survived the Holocaust
http://isurvived.org/TOC-I.html

Survivors -- Shoah Visual History Foundation
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/otv/otv.php
(Archives of interviews of Holocaust survivors, and links)

Survivor stories (audio)
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/

Survivors (Louisiana Project)
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/holocaust_survivor_testimony.html

Camps and Ghettos:

Lest We Forget: Camps
http://www.cympm.com/

Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/indexeng.html
(Graphic photographs, illustrating day-to-day humiliations of Jews)

Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://www.remember.org/
(Includes survivors' journals, Auschwitz)

Heroes:

Hero -- Raoul Wallenberg
http://remember.org/imagine/wallenberg.html
(Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during Nazi occupation, and disappeared at the end of the war.  Online biography.

Heroes -- Stories of Jewish Rescue
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/
(6 rescuers who assisted Holocaust victims and their stories.  Descriptions of Jewish life under German occupation in the countries where rescuers lived.)

Genocide:

Genocide Project
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/other-sites.html
(A portal to websites for the Holocaust.  Also contants May 95 issue of online journal "An End to Intolerance.")


Medical Experiments:

Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org
(Online database, excerpts from Nuremberg prosecution of Nazi Doctors)

Medical Experiments - Nazi Doctors
http://members.tripod.com/nazi_medical/experiments.html
http://www.remember.org/imagine/medical.html

Nuremberg Trials:

Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org
(Online database, excerpts from Nuremberg prosecution of Nazi Doctors)

The Mazal Library
http://www.mazal.org/

Neo-Nazi Movement:

The Making of a Skinhead
http://inri-mexicanjaguars.tripod.com/id42.html

Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/racist_skinheads/

Intelligence Project-KKK/hate groups
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/?source=redirect&url=splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-index.html

Homefront/News of Nazis in Press:

The Homefront
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/index.htm

Holocaust History
http://www.holocaust-history.org

Art:

Art from Auschwitz
http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

Art as Evidence
http://remember.org/educate/art.html

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/arts/arts.htm
(other resources: i.e. arts/music, survivors, resistance, rescue/heroism, etc.)

Propaganda:

German Propaganda Archives
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pre1933.htm

Posters
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/szyk/
(Arthur Szyk's WWII posters -- we also have a book  of his WWII posters in the reference section of the library)

Berlin Olympics 1936:

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics//index.html

Hitler Youth:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html

Racial Science:

http://www.trueorigin.org/holocaust.asp

Auschwitz:

http://www.auschwitz.dk/id19.htm
(timeline)

Holocaust Denial:

http://www.nizkor.org/features/revision-or-denial/#the-question
http://www.adl.org/

General Holocaust Information:

Kids Konnect
http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/269/27/
(excellent portal to many reputable sites on a wide variety of Holocaust subtopics)

Lest We Forget:  Holocaust
http://www.cympm.com/

Timeline
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm

General Information about History/20th Century
http://history1900s.about.com/
http://remember.org

Gestapo: General Information
http://www.holocaust-history.org/

Gestapo/Nazi officer bios, etc.
TRANSLATE WITH BABELFISH:  www.babelfish.altavista.com
http://www.shoa.de/content/section/2/46/

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/

Symbols
http://www.intelinet.org/swastika/swastika_intro.htm

Holocaust/Shoah
http://ddickerson.igc.org/holocaust.html

The Hope Site Home Page
http://www.nizkor.org/
(Lots on general Holocaust, Anne Frank, camps, Nuremberg, Canadian newspapers 1938-1939)

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/default.htm
(other resources: i.e. arts/music, survivors, resistance, rescue/heroism, etc.)

Excellent Indices to Holocaust (general information)
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm?once=tre&
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=901829

Eva Braun
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/braun.html

World War II General Information:

http://history1900s.about.com/
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1753.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/timeline/index.htm
http://www.hist.unt.edu/web_resources_mil/ww2a.htm
(Includes Holocaust, Homefront, etc.)

Pearl Harbor/Uboats/Midway/ (Navy):

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html